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In the programme tonight: far this year. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The benefits cheat up in court for claiming almost ?50,000 | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
The house the council said tripled in size without planning permission. | :00:11. | :00:24. | |
We will be here later in the programme. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
A family launches a search for a bone marrow donor to save | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
And in rugby, the Saints are on target this weekend | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
First tonight, the benefit fraudster who claimed | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
thousands of pounds for looking after a daughter he didn't have. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
For 11 years, Jem Bakalej from Northampton collected income | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
support, tax credits and child benefit | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
for a daughter who had actually died just after she was born. | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
In total, he claimed just under ?50,000. | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
His scam was only discovered after an anonymous tip`off to | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
the government's fraud investigation team. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
We'll be hearing from them in a moment. | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
But first, this report from Mike Cartwright. | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
He did everything not to show his face. Mr Bakalej, are you ashamed to | :01:21. | :01:33. | |
show your face? Anything to get away from the camera. A father he used | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
his dead daughter's men to take ?50,000. Jem Bakalej walked free | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
from court and could have gone to jail. He received a two`year | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
suspended sentence for what the judge described as a very serious | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
crime. He was also given 200 hours community service and a curfew from | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
7pm to seven a.m.. He lived on this Northampton Street with his partner | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
and their three children, a man who claimed single`parent income support | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
for his baby daughter just a few months after she died. Over 11 | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
years, Jem Bakalej defrauded more than ?35,000 of income support, | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
nearly ?7,000 in tax credits and nearly ?7,000 in child benefit. This | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
sort of benefit fraud, over a 10`year period, is not particularly | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
common, but as a whole benefit broadcast the taxpayer more than ?1 | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
billion. This is not a victimless crime, it's not only from | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
taxpayers, it also harms the most vulnerable in society who see their | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
much`needed benefits going to people who really don't have any legitimate | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
claim. The care he provides to his son kept him from being sent to | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
prison today. A man desperate to stay hidden after hiding benefit | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
fraud for more than a decade. Mark Pickering is | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
from the government's fraud I asked him why was Mr Bakalej | :03:11. | :03:11. | |
allowed to get away with it for At the time it appeared to be a | :03:12. | :03:23. | |
genuine claim. You say it is that you should take people 's work, but | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
surely you have to check people are telling the truth? Absolutely. But | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
based on the facts given to us at the time we had no cause to doubt | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
what he was telling us. Yes, we will undertake reviews on people's | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
claims, but he continued to tell us that the child was still alive, | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
which is what we thought. This fraud went on for more than a decade. | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
There will be people watching who are shocked and surprised. Were you | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
shocked when you uncovered the case? It is unusual. We are merging now | :04:07. | :04:20. | |
with one government department which could now involve us looking at | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
local authorities. Are you saying that the system has been too | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
bureaucratic to this point for you to be able to police it properly? | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
Absolutely not. We have an excellent system in place and we have | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
extremely good investigators doing a good job. It was ?1 billion last | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
year. That is what benefit broadcast. It's an extremely large | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
amount of money to anyone. It is an extremely large amount of money but | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
when you bear in mind the amount of benefits we pay out, that equates to | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
0.7% of benefits paid out. It is a high amount. We will recover where | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
anybody has assets and we will recover fully when we can. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
After years of campaigning against a giant incinerator, villagers | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
in Bedfordshire say they're now facing yet another planning battle. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
This time, against a gas`fired power station. | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
as Rookery Pits has seen development plans come and go, | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
and each time there's been fierce local opposition. | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
This is the place in question, Rookery Pits, just south of Bedford | :05:38. | :05:51. | |
and surrounded by the villagers of Marston Moor, Millbrook and Stuart | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
B. The gas station proposed here would be just the other side of the | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
green mound and would take up 20 acres. The company behind it said it | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
would create jobs and bring money to the local economy. On the back they | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
are looking to build up a new gas power station. What do you do with a | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
dish used clay pit? This used to supply the brickworks nearby until | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
they shot `` disused. Plans of the site include an incinerator, | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
landfill, and now a gas`fired power station. But not everyone is | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
convinced. We always seem to be having yet another fight against | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
major infrastructure projects. We just seem to be getting one major | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
project after another. We are getting tired of it. This was the | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
local reaction when a different company wanted to build an | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
incinerator on the site to burn waste. It got planning permission | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
but they were then put on hold. Why does Millbrook Energy want to build | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
its power station on this site? It has been designated for industrial | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
development. The facilities are keeping in with that designation and | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
it is very close to the electricity and gas infrastructure. A leaflet | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
outlining the plans has been sent to people living and working nearby. | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
Their first impressions? I was very anti the previous company, but that | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
was burning waste. I need to find out more. It didn't read as though | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
it was written for the layman and the website was confusing. I | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
wouldn't say I'm overwhelmed it will go there but I think it's a | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
necessity that has to happen. Next week details of the plans will be | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
made available at a series of exhibitions in surrounding villages. | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
Next, the row over planning permission which saw | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
a five`bedroom bungalow turned into a seven`bedroom mansion. | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
Luton businessman Raza Shah told the council he wanted to add | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
What happened next was building work which the council said tripled | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
But now Mr Shah told us he will be allowed to keep his dream house. | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
Last September, Mr Shah's dream home was facing demolition even before it | :08:43. | :08:58. | |
was finished. The Luiten businessman had been given planning permission | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
for an extension of the local planners felt it and build a new | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
home. We spent two years on a project to be told that we needed to | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
pull it down. Which makes no sense. The decision makes no sense. This is | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
the five bedroom bungalow that Mr Shah bought three years ago. And | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
this is how it looks today. Last September, Central Bedfordshire | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Council ordered its demolition because they felt it had been | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
overdeveloped. The building has now been saved after Mr Shah lodged an | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
appeal and one. `` and won it. I'm ecstatic. I've always had faith in | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
God, and justice has prevailed. Central Bedfordshire Council said it | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
was an inappropriate development in an area of outstanding natural | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
beauty. The planning inspector disagree. Anybody looking at the | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
house can see it's a completely different building to the original | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
construction which was a flat roofed building. This looks more like | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
Southfork. Anyone with a glimmer of common sense would say that that is | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
a new house. A number of neighbours objected to the planning | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
application. None of them wanted to appear in this report, but they all | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
told me they felt rather frustrated and bewildered by the planning | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
inspector's decision. A view shared by some but not all villagers. It | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
looks a bit out of place. It stands out like a sore thumb. I think he's | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
done a great job. The council Two men have been jailed for a | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
series of shootings which took place Khadeem Newell, | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
seen here on the left, and Rene Lawrence on the right were both | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
convicted of conspiracy to murder. They will each serve a minimum | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
of 11 years in jail. Now we can join Stewart and Susie | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
for the rest of the programme. One at Christmas and one | :11:13. | :11:58. | |
on her birthday. A Seago exhibition often | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
drew long queues. The works up for sale have been | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
displayed at Bury St Edmunds prior In a gallery, two art lovers meet | :12:05. | :12:20. | |
for the first time, but already as sheer passion. East Anglia as did by | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
Sir Edward Seago. That is the one. I would love that. Would you give it | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
to me? I think Sir Edward Seago is a slightly unsung hero. Seven local | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
land and seascapes by a local artist are soon to be auctioned in London. | :12:42. | :12:50. | |
A sneak preview today. A beach party somewhere in Norfolk. Silhouetted in | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
snow. Barges. Underground trollop. This one expected to raise about | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
?50,000. Not bad for a man who taught him self to paint and ran off | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
to live with a travelling circus aged 18. He healed from Norwich and | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
on time was hailed as one of the most elevated artists in Britain. | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
This works were snapped up by monarchs and ministers. He is not a | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
Marmite artist. He will appeal to most people. But the critics were | :13:34. | :13:42. | |
sniffy? I think it was because of rapid developments occurring that | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
critics did not take to him. He was never seen as cutting`edge. Another | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
knowledge artist very much at the cutting edge is Colin self with an | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
international reputation and he admits Seago will never be one of | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
the great artist. It would probably be like comparing Mount Snowdon with | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
Mount Everest. It is kind of quirky that someone like him still carries | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
on, essentially painting 19th`century painting in the | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
20th`century. It is a curious world with an art as stated by royalty and | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
the public fell short with the critics, but he must have got | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
something right and in the last 15 years alone, the value of his work | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
has doubled. This dog will rise even more at next month is macro option. | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
`` next month's option. The plight of a baby boy from | :14:46. | :14:46. | |
Northamptonshire has highlighted a serious shortage of bone marrow | :14:47. | :14:47. | |
donors across the region. Every three weeks, Joey Ziadi needs | :14:48. | :14:47. | |
a blood transfusion to stay alive. Joey's family are now desperately | :14:48. | :14:48. | |
searching for a donor but Just under 2,000 people | :14:49. | :14:48. | |
in this country need a bone marrow a third find a perfect match with | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
somebody in their immediate family but the rest including Joey have to | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
rely on the donor register They are a happy family, but | :14:54. | :15:06. | |
heartache behind the smiles. Joey has a rare blood condition and he | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
cannot edges red blood cells to feed his body with oxygen at either | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
transfusion every three weeks. It is a condition called Diamond`Blackfan | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
anemia affecting only 125 people in the UK. Bad cells produce weirs | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
cells are missing. As he is a baby, you want him to be up eight and | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
learning and developing. But when he is anaemic every three weeks, he is | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
floppy, lethargic. It is affecting his development. His first nine | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
months have been dramatic, born lethargic and floppy and he could | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
not open his eyes than two weeks, then suffering heart failure. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
Transfusions can help but long`term can affect organs. Now his family | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
have set up a Facebook page asking people to come forward as donors. It | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
would give him the chance to have a normal life without having these | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
blood transfusions hanging over him every three weeks. Just so he can | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
grow to be a normal little boy, be able to run around and not after | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
three weeks go down the hill. He can sustain his own body with a bone | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
marrow transplant. In the UK, every 20 minutes, someone is diagnosed | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
with lung cancer. Only 30% of patients find a match within their | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
own family. We have over half a million people on the register, and | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
access to the other registers around the world, where we can search for a | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
match, meaning we can access 20 million people, but for about half | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
of the people needing transplants, we cannot find a match in the UK, so | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
the more people coming forward, the more families matches we can we | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
apologise for the loss of subtitles. If you want to find out more | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
about donating bone marrow you can get in touch with the Anthony Nolan | :17:26. | :17:26. | |
register. Their website is | :17:27. | :17:26. | |
at anthony nolan.org. It's an exciting weekend | :17:27. | :17:27. | |
in store for supporters They are hoping to secure | :17:28. | :17:28. | |
their second big prize in a week by lifting the Premiership trophy | :17:29. | :17:29. | |
for the first time On Sunday, | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
their England stars leave for Players like Tom Wood who has | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
his own special way You will not find many back row | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
bruisers with a Robin Hood fetish. Whether you are Bath, | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
Leicester or just a plain old rugby ball, all have been on the receiving | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
end of Northampton's Tom Wood. Where did your passion | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
for actually come from? A friend | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
of mine mentioned he had a bow. But when I saw kit like this, | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
had a go, I don't think put one How do you think this has | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
helped you as a rugby player? It is about getting away from rugby, | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
the rigours of the professional game, training day in, day out, | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
the intensity of fans, the media, nice to be on a field with none | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
of that going on and half an hour Stealing over the line to Rob Lester | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
of a place in the premiership final fortnight | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
ago, he then took his band of merry men to Cardiff last week to claim | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
their first trophy in four years. Last Friday night was a big one, | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
because having that in the cabinet already gives us that | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
extra confidence, But after what happened last year, | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
and all the work we've put in already this season, | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
we really want to go there and bring home some silverware to | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
this club, to the town. A lesson with Tom Wood | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
on the compound bow is Your biceps are | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
about five times the size of mine. Until this bit hits this bit | :18:58. | :19:06. | |
of string. A natural teacher, | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
his light`hearted approach betrays You get much banter | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
of team`mates for this? The banter is about how intense I | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
am, rather than the actual pursuit. I have picked up the nickname arrow, | :19:16. | :19:26. | |
which I don't mind, The premiership title is one | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
trophy to have eluded Saints. With snipers like Wood | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
on the Twickenham turf, The build up to England's World Cup | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
campaign gets underway in just over an hour. Roy Hodgson's | :19:38. | :19:48. | |
side are taking on Peru The match could give us some idea | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
about what to expect in Brazil.But Brazil, they've got one by Shakira, | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
one by J`Lo and Pitbull and most of Let's go live to Wembley and | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
World Cup Mike. Welcome to Wembley, a big night for | :20:05. | :20:24. | |
England and their fans. A chance for them to say good luck and goodbye | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
before going to America then on to Brazil. Let us look down Olympic | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Way. You take your life in your hands when among football fans, but | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
this should be a good crowd. Not maybe both from Peru. This is a time | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
for optimism. These chaps are from Cambridge. The other Free Kicks, and | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
they have written a song about Roy Hodgson. `` they are called Free | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
Kicks. The Free Kicks at their studios in Cambridge with their own | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
World Cup warm up. Ordinarily, the playful rock around the pubs, but | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
this singer songwriter was inspired by nine other than Roy Hodgson. And | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
not only is there a song, but a very cool video as well. Sadly, we do not | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
know what Roy Hodgson thinks of the song yet. He is busy with the | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
football for the ``. The World Cup tops everything. Stephen Gerrard | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
also gets a mention. Just to echo what he has said, everyone is | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
impressed, certainly the young lads have done fantastically well, even | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
the two young lads training with us have been superb. And it is not just | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
the Free Kicks busy with the song, have a look at Beer Belly Billy and | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
the Billericay Boys, raising money for a garden Hospice in Letchworth. | :22:17. | :22:28. | |
You have also been telling me on Twitter about your favourite World | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
Cup songs. This one from 1970 tops the list are many, but sadly a | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
nightmare in the quarterfinals and we were home to early. Hopefully, | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
the Free Kicks, including some seminaked cavorting in Cambridge, | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
can inspire England to World Cup glory this time. | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
This is the singer`songwriter. Not a big football fan, how did you write | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
the song? I trawled through the Internet, looking at other ones. I | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
used that as a reference. What kind of reaction have you had? It has | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
been great, lots of friends and family, Radio five Live laid as, | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
social media, it has been great. `` have played the song. Let's have a | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
quick final burst of the chorus. SINGING. | :23:40. | :23:55. | |
Fantastic! Who knows? It could be a hit. It is available on iTunes. Good | :23:56. | :24:09. | |
luck to England tonight. Get in touch with me if you have World Cup | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
story, using these details on screen. Goodbye from Wembley. | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Thank goodness he did not predict England would win the World Cup. He | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
is the worst. Now for the weather. The World War I tour has arrived in | :24:27. | :24:38. | |
Norwich, these are live pictures showing them setting up for | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
tomorrow. Lots of visitors it acted and certainly some good weather. The | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
tour was in Suffolk and will be in Colchester on the fifth and 6th of | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
July, promising visitors a fool recruitment experience. I hope you | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
have fun. And the weather is looking good for lots of outdoor pursuits | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
this weekend. I am off to Ladies Day at the racecourse and pleased to | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
report it is looking quite fine for most of Sunday, just the small | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
chance of showers, but barely low`risk. For most of us, looking | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
dry right the way through the weekend. Dry weather across the | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
British Isles. Some fine conditions, but it could turn a bit | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
cloudy. Coastal parts of the region did well for sunshine. Other inland, | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
more cloud around. `` farther inland. Most of us seeing sunshine | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
to end the day and clear spells overnight. Possible it could get | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
chillier than the last few nights. Temperatures getting down into | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
single figures, perhaps or 7 degrees and some mist patches in the early | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
hours of tomorrow. Tomorrow starts with some fine weather, a little | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
chilly to start with, but warming up in the sunshine. The clouds starting | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
to feed through into the afternoon and the small risk it could produce | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
some isolated showers, but for most looking dry. In the sunshine, 17 or | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
18 degrees the high. And onshore breeze means cooler temperatures | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
along the coast and stop largely fine and cloudy for the afternoon. | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
The weather will change next week, the pressure part into next week, | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
meaning some unsettled conditions returning, but not spell your link | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
`` but not spoiling the weekend. By Monday, some regions could get to 19 | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
Celsius. But the risk of some showers. Then unsettled to start | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
next week, increasingly cloudy for Monday, the Chancellor showers | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
around, and Tuesday looking like sunshine and | :27:18. | :27:18. |